Why her? Why must she confront the darkness? But confront them she must, or her whole world will die.
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Living a safe life in the green Building, Glyre is on duty one night when the darkness attack, and, against all the rules she, newly changed from spiky girl to a Woman of the Black, leaves the Building to defend a wounded girl from the red Building. All the Buildings are under attack by the darkness, and under the protection of an Exception, Glyre is sent into the world, in great and dread danger, first to contact the Cat Bone Lady, and then to investigate the murderous darkness. Her journey takes her back into the heart of her past, and forward into maturity. She caries with her the burden that she must succeed, or fail all the Buildings, and that without her help and her strength, the darkness will destroy the Buildings, kill the light girls, the spiky girls, and the Women of the Black, and everything she knows.
But she has to try, 'cos she's a spiky girl.
Glyre lives in a world that exists within, but hidden from, ours. She is confused, she is humane, she is hurt, but most of all, she’s a spiky girl.
(All finished at 79,000+)